LEGO CUUSOO is now LEGO Ideas

On April 30th, LEGO CUUSOO’s beta period ended, and has now became LEGO Ideas:

Today we are happy to invite you to join LEGO Ideas; a continuation of the former LEGO CUUSOO experience, more closely integrated with the LEGO experience online.

In the fall of 2008, CUUSOO Systems and the LEGO Group teamed up to launch the LEGO CUUSOO crowdsourcing experiment. Initially, the site was only available in Japanese. But the promising results from the pilot led to the launch of the international LEGO CUUSOO beta site in the fall of 2011. The LEGO Group is very happy to announce that the partnership with CUUSOO Systems, has been such a success that we have decided to integrate the CUUSOO concept more closely into the LEGO experience called LEGO Ideas. We are grateful for the many years of collaboration and experimentation between our two companies and wish CUUSOO Systems continued success, building CUUSOO as an open crowdsourcing platform for brands to connect with their fans on cuusoo.com.

 

Practical Information

All projects, supports, comments, profiles, and other data from LEGO CUUSOO have been automatically migrated to LEGO Ideas. You can sign in to LEGO Ideas with a LEGO ID, find your old LEGO CUUSOO account, and connect to it after clicking a confirmation link we will send you via email. You will need access to the email address associated with your LEGO CUUSOO account in order to access your old profile and projects on LEGO Ideas.

The LEGO CUUSOO domain will redirect to LEGO Ideas for 6 months. During that time, this blog will remain online as an archive and links to your projects on LEGO CUUSOO will automatically redirect to your project pages on LEGO Ideas. We recommend you update links to your projects because after November 1, 2014, all links to LEGO CUUSOO will stop redirecting.

 

What’s different on LEGO Ideas?

1. Your project now has one year from the day you post it to reach 10,000 supporters. Projects that don’t reach 10,000 supporters within 365 days of being posted will automatically expire and no longer accept new supporters. If this happens, you’re welcome to re-submit the project and work to gain 10,000 fresh supporters again within a one year period. Projects carried over from LEGO CUUSOO will keep their existing supporters and have until May 1st, 2015 to qualify.
2. If you are between 13-18 years old you can now create and submit projects. If your project reaches 10,000 supporters, we will require written permission from a parent or legal guardian before your project is considered in the LEGO Review.
3. Introducing “Clutch Power.” As you participate on LEGO Ideas, you will earn points and badges that become your “Clutch Power”. The more you support, share, or create, the higher your Clutch Power points will be, and the more badges you will earn.

 

Other Guidelines Changes

From time to time we may update the Project Guidelines and House Rules; here are a few other notable updates on LEGO Ideas:

• Projects can no longer be edited after you submit them. However you’re welcome to add updates to your project to refine or improve the initial concept. These appear in the new Updates tab.
• We no longer allow mockups of LEGO product boxes (“box art”) or marketing materials in your images. Mocked-up box art confuses people into thinking your project is something they can buy right now.
• You may only submit images which belong to you. This means no images created by others online, for example screen shots from a movie or TV show.

 

What you see today on LEGO Ideas is just the beginning. Over time, we are looking forward to adding new ways for you to participate with us in co-creating LEGO products together on LEGO Ideas.

 

Sincerely,

LEGO Ideas Team

I have also submitted my first project!

If you would like to support it, you can do so here: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/63480

BrickCon 2013

It’s that time of year again…

Will you be going this year?  Will you be attending as a builder?  And…

Pigs or Cows?  Who will win?

Minifigures MMO News

http://www.funcom.com/games/lego#

Get ready to meet the Minifigures! Collect them all and bring them with you on grand adventures in LEGO Minifigures Online – an epic online adventure where you get to explore colorful locations such as Pirate World, Space World and Medieval World!

Play together with thousands of other players and battle your way through monstrous riff-raff as you develop your Minifigures’ unique and powerful abilities. Smash, build and collect – thousands of exciting adventures are just a brick away in LEGO Minifigures Online!

LEGO Minifigures Online will launch for PC, iOS and Android during the second half of 2014.

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Also check out LEGO.com for more Minifigure fun!

Explore many wondrous worlds of LEGO each teeming with life, detail and awesome adventure! From lush islands held by swashbuckling pirates to alien worlds where the Galaxy Patrol must battle dangers such as the mind-controlling Pluuvian Brain-Beast!

Find, collect and play with almost one hundred different minifigures! The Ice Skater, the Chicken Suit Guy, the Roller Derby Girl, The Policeman and many, many more; millions of LEGO fans all over the world have held them in their hands and now they can step into their shoes as they explore the world of LEGO Minifigures Online!

Interact with the environment around you and use it to your advantage! Smash an enemy turret and re-build it to work for you, destroy a wall to discover a hidden passage and even build machines to help you take down the big bosses! Smashing stuff definitely feels good, but as all LEGO fans will know, building something feels even better!

Play together with thousands of other players from all over the world! Face the adventure together or engage in awesome player vs. player battles where you must build towers, traps, mines and turrets while taking on the enemy and smashing theirs!

Discover unique abilities with each minifigure! Take control of the rocked-out DJ and literally drop your beats on unsuspecting enemies, or assume the role of the Aztec Warrior and go to battle making sure no one is spared your mighty spear! Maybe the Plumber is your guy? Sure; unclog those baddies and make a mess of them!

Gather experience and level up minifigures by smashing your way through enemies, rocks and LEGO blocks! Customize your playstyle by collecting special bricks and put them together in unique shapes to upgrade abilities such as luck and creativity!

Since 1975, LEGO has made more than 3600 different minifigures available and Funcom will continuously keep adding more and more of these for players to collect in-game! Funcom and LEGO are working closely together to blend the physical world of LEGO with the digital one; for instance players who purchase bags containing real minifigure will immediately be able to jump into the game and play with their virtual counterparts!

Unravel what is surely an Academy Award Winning* story! Take on quests such as searching for buried treasure in the pirate world, rescuing the kingnapped king in the medieval world, and even helping Zeus himself in the mythology world!

There’s also a trailer and screenshots on the website.  It also seems that they used LU music!

 

Another Funcom article:

FUNCOM REVEALS LEGO® MINIFIGURES ONLINE

Published on (2013-08-29)

– Funcom reveals ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’, an online world where peg-legged pirates, medieval knights and space explorers star in their own epic adventure! –

 

Oslo, Norway – August 29^th, 2013 – Get ready! The minifigures are coming! Funcom is excited to finally unveil details, screenshots and the first ever trailer for its upcoming ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’ game to LEGO fans and gaming enthusiasts across the world. Based on the hugely successful LEGO Minifigures brand, ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’ brings the small, colorful characters to life in their own adventure-filled online world during the second half of 2014.

While primarily geared towards kids, ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’ will deliver both gameplay depth and loads of that crazy fun which makes everything LEGO such a universally enjoyable pastime among the young at heart everywhere — whether they are ten, thirty or fifty years old!

Just think about it: most of us have fond memories of LEGO bricks in all the colors of the rainbow strewn about our childhood bedroom floor. These plastic bricks were – and still are – the building blocks of the worlds that we created from our very own imagination. While these are but childhood memories for some, many of us still lose ourselves in imaginary worlds; some made up by LEGO bricks, others by bits and bytes.

In ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’ you once again get to visit Pirate World, Space World, Medieval World and many others, as you play together with thousands of other players while collecting minifigures and developing their unique and powerful abilities. Smash, build and collect — thousands of exciting adventures are just a brick away in ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’!

“We could not be more excited to be working with LEGO on such a great franchise. I think you could even say the team has been training to make this game since we were little kids,” says Lawrence Poe, Executive Producer on ‘LEGO Minifigures Online’. “That excitement carries over into everything we do, and we’re throwing every ounce of our passion and creativity into the game. We are one hundred percent focused on delivering the fun, safe, quality experience that people expect when they think of LEGO minifigures.”

‘LEGO Minifigures Online’ will launch on PC, iOS and Android during the second half of 2014. In addition to being available as a full-fledged, DirectX 11 PC client, the game will also be playable in a browser through new technology being developed by Funcom for its proprietary DreamWorld platform.

Download the official trailer in English, French or German from Funcom’s FTP, or embed it directly from Funcom’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots and high-resolution renders can be found on Funcom’s FTP.

More information about the game is available on both Funcom.com and LEGO.com.

Series 11 Minifigures Full List

Recently, Series 11 Minifigs were released in Poland, and are scheduled to release worldwide in September. There’s definitely some interesting new pieces!

A LEGO Universe Holiday

Hi all, I hope everyone here is enjoying the holiday season.  While LU was still going, I didn’t get a chance to go to Frostburgh, so I decided to “make it” with real LEGO bricks!  Merry Christmas, happy Frostivus, and holidays!

LEGO Creation Nation Event at Washington Square

On October 19-21, hundreds of LEGO fans joined in a Creation Nation event at Washington Square in Tigard Oregon, where they helped build a large sale map of the United States.  Here’s some pictures if the event:

 

That’s how it was on Friday.  On Sunday it would be full of creative models!

BrickCon 2012

BrickCon is coming back to Seattle, WA, on October 6-7.  Will you be going this year?  Are you going to show off your MOC?  Any comments from last year?

Real LEGO Universe Accessories

Here are some pictures of assorted LEGO Universe gear I’ve been collecting for about two months.

Some pets, Doberman, Skunk, Terrier, Cat, Goat, Robot Dog, and Bunny.  (From L to R.)

MiniTheFig, Bob, and a Nexus Force Astronaut.

Almost all of the LEGO Universe items that I have!

MiniTheFig with Wormholer, Jetpack, and Turtle Pack.

I got some of them from Pick-A-brick or Bricklink.  I might upload more if I get more pieces.

LEGO Store Grand Opening at Alderwood Mall

Here are some pictures from the grand opening of the LEGO store in Lynnwood WA.

 

Two photos of the Master Builder event…

In the background is part of the giant Yoda (copying the smaller one) they were making.

The Pick a Brick wall.

 

It was a good event.  Enjoy the pictures!

– MiniTheFig

Collage by MiniTheFig

Hi everyone,

I am MiniTheFig, and I played in the Overbuild server.  LEGO Universe was the best game I’ve played, and I’ve made many amazing friends. My greatest friends were HappyPappy, SamuraiMaster, White, and Zipblock.  (In alphabetical order)

I hope you enjoy this, and it’s been an honor.

– ℳίηίҬℎℯℱίℊ